A constitutional amendment (or constitutional alteration) is a modification of the constitution of a polity, organization or other type of entity. Amendments...

Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol. Congress has also enacted statutes governing the constitutional amendment process...

addressed via constitutional amendment in India. As a result, the Constitution is amended roughly twice a year. There are three types of amendments to the Constitution...

constitutional amendment is a concept in judicial review based on the idea that even a properly passed and properly ratified constitutional amendment...

Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), U.S. state constitutional amendments banning same-sex unions of several different types passed, banning...

win Congressional approval to go through the constitutional ratification process. Some proposed amendments are introduced over and over again in different...

whole, accumulating too much power". Various amendments aimed at changing informal precedent to constitutional law were proposed in Congress in the early...

Benedict, "Constitutional Politics, Constitutional Law, and the Thirteenth Amendment" (2012), p. 179. Benedict, "Constitutional Politics, Constitutional Law...

Third Amendment may refer to the: 2004 Arkansas Amendment 3, constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, civil unions and civil union equivalents in the...

the Supreme Court remarked that "ratification [of a proposed constitutional amendment] must be within some reasonable time after the proposal", and suggested...

A balanced budget amendment or debt brake is a constitutional rule requiring that a state cannot spend more than its income. It requires a balance between...

states from the federal constitutional amendment process and from abolition or interference by Congress. Although the Corwin Amendment does not explicitly...

controversial. From the 1960s to the 1980s, Constitutional revision was rarely debated, although amendment of the Constitution has been one of the party...

a nearly insurmountable obstacle to constitutional reform. The amendment process crafted during the Constitutional Convention, James Madison later wrote...

The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution addresses issues related to presidential succession and disability. It clarifies...

Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established the direct election of United States senators in each state. The amendment supersedes...

proposed to expand the constitutional definition of family to include durable relationships outside marriage. The Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution...

series of constitutional amendments, it was suggested that the two houses first adopt a resolution indicating that they deemed amendments necessary....

amendment can be amended. Some of the most famous constitutional amendments are the First Amendment to the United States Constitution which added the...

article 89 and 42 state that "the plenary discussion of the draft constitutional amendment ... carries, on first reading to the first meeting, on the text...

Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. Considered...

informally as Prop 8, was a California ballot proposition and a state constitutional amendment intended to ban same-sex marriage. It passed in the November 2008...

initiative unaltered or it goes to the voters. An initiated constitutional amendment is an amendment to a state's constitution that results from petitioning...

unable to gain the legislative momentum necessary for passing a constitutional amendment. The drive to lower the voting age from 21 to 18 grew across the...

Utah Constitutional Amendment 3 was an amendment to the Utah state constitution that sought to define marriage as a union exclusively between a man and...

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The Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan,the Constitution (Twenty-sixth Amendment) Act, 2024, is an amendment to the constitution of...

local primaries. November 5, 2024: General election. 2024 Wyoming Constitutional Amendment A would "separate residential real property into its own class...

2024 Missouri Constitutional Amendment 3, also known as the Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative, was a constitutional amendment that appeared on the...

controversial constitutional amendment in history. It attempted to reduce the power of the Supreme Court and High Courts to pronounce upon the constitutional validity...